If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

When you work really hard for something for a long time it's almost impossible to believe that it's coming true.

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

You're going very fast when you're on orbit, going around the world once every hour and a half.

The nature of the shuttle was, we couldn't put a crew escape system in it.

Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.